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found: Greenwood encyclopedia of international relations, 2002:defection (asking for asylum in exchange for being debriefed on all one knows about an adversary's operations)

found: Wikipedia website, Oct. 27, 2006(Defection; this act is usually in a manner which violates the laws of the nation or political entity from which the person is seeking to depart, as opposed to a change of citizenship)